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Page 100 - ... the State of New York March 6, 1843; emigrated with his parents when he was but a few years old to Wisconsin, settling in the western part of that State; received a common school and academic education; volunteered as a private in Company G, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Infantry, with which regiment he served until the close of the war, being mustered out with the rank of captain; in the early summer of 1866 he went to Colorado, where he resided nine years, making his home in the counties of Gilpin...